There's a report out on Friday saying that Boston Bruins forward Tyler Seguin has a congenital hip condition that makes him more suspect to a injury. Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli would not say much but said there are other Bruins players who have the same condition or something similar.
The condition could lead to an injury that requires surgery and potentially shorten his career, the sources said, but is not a concern for the short-term, nor is it affecting him presently.
The condition increases the likelihood that the 19-year-old Seguin suffers a type of repetitive-stress degenerative hip injury if he isn't proactive about building and maintaining his strength in that area.
"The worst-case scenario is they start to develop recurring symptoms consistent of a groin pull, hip flexor strains, difficulty getting their hips in certain positions, reduced rotation, increase in pain and reduced levels of performance," renown hip expert and surgeon Dr. Bryan Kelly, who has not examined Seguin, said in describing a worst-case scenario for a hockey player who is battling a congenital hip condition.
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"I'm not going to comment whether it's congenital or not," Chiarelli said. "I don't want to get into details what we think it is or isn't and I don't want any alarm bells going off. Like I said, you can go through our roster and there are probably 12 or 13 guys with something similar or the same thing."
"I'm not going to comment on any of our players' medical conditions that aren't really an issue," added Chiarelli. "We have guys with sore ankles and they play through it, so it's not something I'm going to comment on."
When asked whether he was concerned about Seguin's hip, Chiarelli was clear.
"No, I'm not," he said.
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Seguin would not confirm the exact nature of his congenital hip condition -- "I don't think I've really said anything to the media about a hip or anything," he said recently. "I don't have anything to say about that" -- but acknowledged he knows he needs to keep up his work in strengthening the area to avoid problems down the road.
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